Stories tagged with: evangelism

• Tuesdays are jail days for church's volunteers

  by Jane Rodgers/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Monday, March 11, 2019 (10 days ago)

  

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  RUSK, Texas (BP) -- Tuesdays mean going behind bars for volunteers with Freedom with Christ who meet with men and women in the Cherokee County Jail each week for Bible study and prayer.

  Freedom with Christ, a ministry of First Baptist Church in Rusk, Texas, also provides Bibles and study materials to prisoners in other correctional facilities in Texas and six surrounding states. Read More

• Evangelism, missions & CP key to Highland's identity

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, March 04, 2019 (17 days ago)

  

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  GROVE CITY, Ohio (BP) -- Highland Baptist Church does something new every year to re-engage its members in evangelism while also nurturing each week their commitment to missions.

  And it includes giving 10 percent to missions through the Cooperative Program, the way Southern Baptist churches partner together to follow Jesus' command in Matthew 18:19 to "Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations." Read More

• 'Who's Your One?' emphasis officially launched

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (23 days ago)

  

  ALPHARETTA, Ga.(BP) -- The North American Mission Board (NAMB) officially launched the "Who's Your One?" evangelism initiative today (Feb. 26) as part of an effort to encourage Southern Baptists to engage people with gospel conversations throughout the year. This evangelism emphasis asks believers to pray for and focus on one individual in the hope that that person may come to Christ. Read More

• 'We must recapture evangelism': E4E Summit

  by Will Hall/Baptist Message, posted Monday, February 18, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  DAVIS, Okla. (BP) -- About 100 evangelists, pastors, directors of evangelism and some wives traveled from across the United States to gather in Oklahoma at the Falls Creek Conference Center to identify issues that have led to declines in evangelism as well as the use of evangelists in the Southern Baptist Convention. They also met to develop recommendations about how to restore the denomination to its Great Commission roots.

  The group included a diverse representation in age and geography, with a large number among the crowd identifying themselves as 45 years old or younger. The guest list showed many attendees were from Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, but included members from the ... Read More

• Church plant reaches millennials at local cineplex

  by Dave Arden, posted Friday, February 15, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  PHOENIX (BP) -- A church plant that meets in one of the theaters in a cineplex may not be big news.

  Except when a church plant impacts so many millennials that it never plans to leave.

  Jeremiah Semmler and CityView Church in Phoenix have seen more than 350 people land in their theater seats and connect with the church family. Instead of watching a new release, many soon meet Jesus and become released to a new life in Christ. Read More

• Facebook expands church plant's community connections

  by Rebecca Manry, posted Wednesday, February 13, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  MESA, Ariz. (BP) -- Everyone craves connections -- a truth that Living Stone Community Church has embraced by using Facebook to minister to their community.

  Facebook can be an important tool in getting to know neighbors and pointing them to Christ, said Ali Clayton, wife of church planter Whitney Clayton. Read More

• Track captain, in newfound faith, begins Bible study

  by Chris Doyle/Baptist Messenger, posted Tuesday, February 12, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  "Adoh," track captain at the University of Oklahoma and a new follower of Christ, now sees his running as a way to "give Him glory." Read More

• Millennials' witness stymied by 'faulty discipleship’

  by David Roach, posted Friday, February 08, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  Barna research indicating nearly half of U.S. millennial Christians believe evangelism is wrong reflects the church's failure to disciple them, say two Southern Baptist evangelism leaders. Read More

• Greear previews 'Who's Your One?' evangelism strategy

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, January 31, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  DURHAM, N.C.(BP) -- J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Yates Baptist Association of Durham, N.C., led and simulcasted an event to preview an upcoming evangelism emphasis called "Who's Your One?" The aim is to encourage every Southern Baptist church member to actively engage in sharing their faith.

  "These are some challenging days for the Southern Baptist Convention," Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., said today (January 31). "They're challenging days for the church in general in the United States, but is God perhaps setting us up for one of the greatest evangelism explosions that we've ever seen?" Read More

• 'Evangelism with Johnny Hunt' NAMB podcast launched

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Wednesday, January 30, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Johnny Hunt, the new senior vice president of evangelism and leadership at the North American Mission Board, has launched a podcast – "Evangelism with Johnny Hunt" -- co-hosted by NAMB President Kevin Ezell.

  The podcast is among the new resources from NAMB to boost evangelistic conversation and activity among Southern Baptists.

  "This is another hook in the water of lostness to remind us, inspire us, instruct us and convince us that if the evangelistic spirit is to return, it's up to us," said Hunt, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Read More